1880 Rare French Edition - JULES VERNE - Le Docteur Ox, Maitre Zacharius, Un hivernage dans les glaces, Un drame dans les airs, Quarantième ascension française au Mont Blanc.
Author: Jules Verne.
Title: Le Docteur Ox, Maitre Zacharius, Un hivernage dans les glaces, Un drame dans les airs, Quarantième ascension française au Mont Blanc.
Publisher: Paris, Bibliothèque d' Éducation et De Récréation J. Hetzel., no date (circa 1880).
Language: Text in French.
Size: 11" X 7.5".
Pages: 210 pages.
Binding: Very good and attractive half red calf leather binding with matching marble paper covers (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Good content (bright, tight and clean, some foxing and staining - mainly to last 2 pages - as shown).
Illustration: Profusely and nicely illustrated by Bertrand, Froelich, Th. Schuler, Bayard and Marie.
Estimate: (USD 150 - USD 200)
The book: Rare and attractive French edition of Dr Ox's Experiment and Other Stories. Dr. Ox's Experiment is a humorous science fiction short story by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1872. It describes an experiment by one Dr. Ox, and is inspired by the real or alleged effects of oxygen on living things.
The author: Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).